Late Holocene linkages between decade-century scale climate variability and productivity at Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-209

  Cohen, Andrew S ^a   Lezzar, Kiram E ^a   Cole, Julia ^a,b   Dettman, David ^a   Ellis, Geoffrey S ^c   Gonneea, Meagan Eagle ^d   Plisnier, Pierre Denis ^e   Langenberg, Victor ^f   Blaauw, Maarten ^g   Zilifi, Derrick ^h  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^f National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

^g CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

ENSO; Holocene paleoclimate; Lake Tanganyika; Paleoproductivity; Solar forcing of climate; Varves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT CORE; TIMESCALE; VARVE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33947307331     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-006-9004-y     Document Type: Article

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